Evaluation of scenarios for the reduction of air pollutants emissions at a university community
Keywords:
Air pollution, pollutants emission, environmental management, mobility, scenariosAbstract
The present paper presents an evaluation of scenarios that represents alternatives for the reduction of pollutant emissions produced by daily trips made for study and work motives to a University campus. The scenarios were based on the regulation of the use of private cars by increasing their load factor; the scenarios were useful for analyzing the potential reduction of air pollutants on the city, as the scenarios simulate how trips made by employees and students of one institution or company decrease the total amount of emitted pollutants. Patterns of mobility for the development of academic activities were estimated through modeling in the Institución Universitaria in Antioquia, Colombia, a characterization of load factors were made for the institution for all the trips made by private car, in order to estimate, through the use of scenarios the achieved emission reductions of pollutants emission when going from an average load factor of 25% to load factors of 50%, 75% and 100%. The results found in this study are a benchmark for corporate environmental management, since it is possible to implement arrangements arising from the administration and achieve significant reductions in polluting emissions produced by the weekly activity of the institutions.
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